The M-PAVE Mentoring Workshop Framework serves as a core resource for mentoring training, incorporating evidence-based strategies tailored to the unique challenges faced by staff and mentors. This includes key areas like effective communication, relationship-building, and addressing the psychological and social needs of staff working with incarcerated people. At the same time this framework serves as a foundation in the leadership development and culture management within prison services. Whilst prison environments are severely overcrowded, understaffed, and under-resourced there is a rising opportunity in incentivising recruitment, improving training sequencing, and increasing retention factors.

The framework supports trainers teaching mentoring to mentors of prison staff and will:

• Provide core theoretical knowledge that learners need to grasp mentoring concepts in the prison context.
• Enhancing existing mentoring practices and encouraging the implementation of validated tools.
• Outline engaging activities and exercises to embed learning and develop mentoring tools & strategies.
• Support trainers with key topics, questions, evaluation methods, and prompts to tailor the content for their specific settings.
• Create a flexible framework trainers can adapt, rather than rigid scripts including feedback mechanisms.
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Additionally, unlike other frameworks, the documents offer clear structures and templates for mentoring sessions, while providing prison services with guidance on selecting and adapting different models based on local context, resources, and needs. It includes a practical decision-making tool to help services prioritise which mentoring practices to implement and how to integrate them effectively into their operations.